heard the roar of the tumbling river
of the Canadas, and I have stood aghast at the crashing of a forest in a
tornado;--but never before did I feel so life-stirring, so thrilling an
emotion of surprise, alarm, and sympathy, as that which arose within me,
at the burst of commendation and delight with which this announcement of
self-devotion and enterprise was received by the audience. Tails waved,
pattes met each other in ecstasy, voice whistled to voice, and there was
one common cry of exultation, of rapture and of glorification, at this
proof, not of monikin, for that would have been frittering away the
triumph, but at this proof of Leaphigh courage.

During the clamor, I took an opportunity to express my satisfaction at
the handsome manner in which our friend the Doctor had passed over an
acknowledged human delinquency, and the ingenuity with which he had
turned the whole of the unhappy transaction to the glory of Leaphigh.
Noah answered that the philosopher had certainly shown a knowledge of
human natur', and he presumed of monikin natur', in the matter; no one
would now dispute his statement, since, as he knew by experience, no one
was so likely to be set down as a liar, as he who endeavored to unsettle
the good opinion that either a community or an individual entertained of
himself. This was the way at Stunin'tun, and he believed this was pretty
much the way at New York, or he might say with the whole 'arth from pole
to pole. As for himself, however, he owned he should like to have a few
minutes' private conversation with the sealer in question, to hear
his account of the matter; he didn't know any owner in his part of the
world, who would bear a captain out, should he abandon a v'yage in
this way, on no better security than the promises of a monkey, and of a
monkey, too, who must, of necessity, be an utter stranger to him.

When the tumult of applause had a little abated, Dr. Reasono proceeded
with his narrative. He touched lightly on the accommodations of the
schooner, which he gave us reason to think were altogether of a quality
beneath the condition of her passengers; and he added that, falling
in with a larger and fairer vessel, which was making a passage between
Bombay and Great Britain, he profited by the occasion, to exchange
ships. This vessel touched at the island of St. Helena, where, according
to the Doctor's account of the matter, he found means to pass the
greater part of a week on shore.

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